see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_..._and_mistletoe you really need to go back to Pliny's original latin text and see what he actually wrote ref the 'golden sickle' and how else it could be translated.....
"But he was a Roman, and scholars have always treated Roman descriptions of the world with caution" see:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...536402,00.html